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London:: H. Baillière,, 1843.. First edition. Fine. Fine Condition. Original hand-colored etching. Octavo (5.75 x 9.25 inches). Full margins.Matted in Rag board. This fine portrait by George Catlin (Pennsylvania 1796-1872) is based on the first- hand field studies created for his seminal work the Native American Indian Tribes: Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio and represent the earliest, most authentic depiction of the native peoples of North America which illustrated Prichard's universal ethnography. Based on the work of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (Gotha 1752-1840) who pioneered the study of anthropology, James C. Prichard, (1786-1848) a Quaker from Herefordshire with a strong belief in abolitionism contended the human race descended from a single set of parents from an aboriginal culture.  Single sheet matted in rag board

London:: H. Baillière,, 1843.. First edition. Fine. Fine Condition. Original hand-colored etching. Octavo (5.75 x 9.25 inches). Full margins.Matted in Rag board. This fine portrait by George Catlin (Pennsylvania 1796-1872) is based on the first- hand field studies created for his seminal work the Native American Indian Tribes: Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio and represent the earliest, most authentic depiction of the native peoples of North America which illustrated Prichard's universal ethnography. Based on the work of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (Gotha 1752-1840) who pioneered the study of anthropology, James C. Prichard, (1786-1848) a Quaker from Herefordshire with a strong belief in abolitionism contended the human race descended from a single set of parents from an aboriginal culture.  Single sheet matted in rag board

London England: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1845. Second Edition enlarged. hardcover. very good/no jacket. 6 x 9 1/4 " 596 pages. This copy has been rebound in sturdy green cloth with gold lettering on spine. some light foxing to some pages and a occasional light smudge to some pages. shipping will be extra for this heavy book, please inquire. many color plates and engravings.

London:: H. Baillière,, 1843.. First edition. Fine. Fine Condition. Original hand-colored etching. Octavo (5.75 x 9.25 inches). Full margins.Matted in Rag board. This fine double portrait by George Catlin (Pennsylvania 1796-1872) is based on the first- hand field studies created for his seminal work the Native American Indian Tribes: Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio and represent the earliest, most authentic depiction of the native peoples of North America which illustrated Prichard's universal ethnography. Based on the work of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (Gotha 1752-1840) who pioneered the study of anthropology, James C. Prichard, (1786-1848) a Quaker from Herefordshire with a strong belief in abolitionism contended the human race descended from a single set of parents from an aboriginal culture.  Single sheet matted in rag board

London: Bailliere, 1855. Hardcover. VG Covers and spines have general wear. Water damage and staining on cover of Volume 2. Bookblocks have age toning. Interior pages have age toning and foxing. Some pages loose from binding. Interiior binding is loose. Brown cloth boards. Front cover has gilt decoration. Gilt lettering on spine. 2 volumes : 720 total pgs. illustrations. 4th ed., edited and enl. by Edwin Norris.

London: H. Baillière, 1855. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Good condition, hinges cracked and spine cloth worn and fragile. 2 vols. (720p.), illus. 62 steel engravings and 100 wood engravings in the text. Only 60 of the steel engavings are colored, two of the plates cited on the title page as "coloured" are black and white engravings of skulls.

London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1848. Hardcover. Very Good. Third Edition, enlarged. Large 8vo, later 19th century half leather, gilt spine, dark brown pebbled cloth boards, very good, mild rubbing and wear to binding, contents very good and bright. 677 pp, well illustrated including 50 colored plates, collated complete.

FOURTH EDITION 1855 edited and enlarged by Edwin Norris. 2 volumes, lacks folio of Six ethnographical maps, often missing, 8vo, approximately 240 x 140 mm, 9½ x 5¾ inches, 57 original hand colored plates, mostly aquatints and a few lithographs, 5 plates are not colored making a total of 62 plates, Woodcuts in the text, original publisher's pictorial wine colored cloth, gilt lettering to spines, gilt portrait to each upper cover with blind portraits to lower covers and blind surrounding decoration, original yellow endpapers, A very good set of an important book, edited and enlarged by Edwin Norris, first published in 1848. Physician and ethnologist James Cowles Prichard was (along with William Lawrence and Charles William Wells) one of the three British scientific precursors to Darwin and evolutionary theory. His central idea was the unity of mankind as a variegated but single species. He was one of the first scientists to suggest that Africa was the original source of the human racial diaspora. He… Leer más

H. Bailliere,, 1845.. 2nd. Leather Bound. Used, very good. VG+. Second (1845) edition. Very attractively bound in half light brown leather, marbled boards, two dark red leather title bands with gold lettering, 5 raised bands, endpapers decorated with fine mulitcolor swirls; 44 colored and 5 plain illustrations engraved on steel, 97 engravings on wood, 596pp. Title page for first edition precedes the second edition title page, index for first edition follows the index for the second edition and is paginated per the first edition. Does not include the 6 folio maps that were published separately. CONDITION: Slight rubbing to edges of cover, leather worn through on very tips of outer corners; bookseller pencil notes on first blank page couild easily be erased, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked; occasional very light foxing throughout plus approximately one inch of heavy foxing on outer margins of the 5 black and white plates at p118 (two crania), p172 (Persepolitan Sculpture), p206 (three… Leer más

London: H. Baillière, 1848. Hardcover. Near Fine. Third edition of the text. Two volumes, beautifully bound in full matching apple green pebble-grained morocco of the period, extravagantly gilt, all edges gilt, cloth doublures. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (22 x 134 cm); xviii, 677, [1] pp., with 51 plates, 46 of them hand-colored, and illustrations in text; the companion map volume in larger format, with 2 ff. folding text, six linen-backed folding hand-colored maps. Light wear, a bright copy overall; one map with splitting to fold. A lovely copy of this ethnographic work. The companion volume of maps states "second edition, 1854" on the maps; this was separately published, and is quite uncommon in any of its editions.